FE Volume 132 Issue 1

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The Round Table

The Round Table

Robert J. Veit, Chief, Grand Rapids, Mich.: The Grand Rapids Fire Department, through the past years, has been endeavoring to protect its fire fighters the best way it possibly can. Self-contained breathing apparatus has been furnished in abundance so that every fire fighter at the scene can have self-contained breathing apparatus.
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Pump House Provides Quick Supply Of Water From Ice-Covered Lake

A heated “quick water dump” pump house with both submersible 700-gpm pump and drafting facilities has solved the problem of getting water from Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin when thick ice covers the lake. The primary water supply for the Town of Calumet Volunteer Fire Department, a rural department on the southeast shore of Lake Winnebago, has always been the lake.
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Suggestions for Developing Plans For Handling Major Emergencies

The most dramatic incident in an earthquake that shook Goleta, Calif., last August was the derailment of a Southern Pacific freight train traveling at 40 miles an hour. Cars were thrown from the tracks and crumpled like children’s toys. An earthquake registering 5.1 on the Richter scale had struck 6 miles off Goleta, Calif., a coastal city of 70,000 population in Santa Barbara County, at 3:55 p.m. Sunday, August 13.
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Company News

FMC Acquires Van Pelt: FMC Corporation and P.E. Van Pelt: Inc., Oakdale, Calif., have reached an agreement whereby FMC will acquire 100 percent of the stock of P. E. Van Pelt, Inc. Van Pelt will operate as an independent operation of FMC under present Van Pelt management. Van Pelt will continue its long service in manufacturing fire apparatus.
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1000 GPM Put on Fire With Use of 5-Inch Hose

The use of 5-inch hose can provide 1000 gpm on the rural fireground with less manpower and equipment than a tanker shuttle. When access to the fire is by a narrow road, the large-diameter hose also avoids the problem of only one tanker at a time being able to use the road.
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Diving Wet Suits Used in Acid Spill

Scuba-diving wet suits were successfully used in handling a sulfuric acid spill when the Chillicothe, Ill., Community Fire Department proved the value of its hazardous materials training. The efforts of the 60-man volunteer fire department to be prepared for any type of incident also include a formal mutual aid plan with surrounding fire protection and other emergency agencies and plans for attacking various types of emergencies.
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Cutting Torch Ruins Remodeling Plan

Fire caused by a cutting torch resulted in the destruction of a four-story factory being converted into apartments in Wilmington, Del. The fast-spreading blaze created exposure problems that necessitated calling for mutual aid. The temperature was well into the 90s accompanied by extremely high humidity when an alarm at 9:36 a.m. last June 28 sent three engine companies, a 100-foot aerial ladder company, a rescue squad, and two battalion chiefs to the Rhoades Leather Company factory on the northwest side of the city.
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Older Citizens Taking Fire Safety Into Homes in Miami Target Areas

Residential fire safety surveyor was a new title added to the fire service lexicon last August by the City of Miami Fire Department when we introduced a fire prevention program manned by senior citizens age 55 and older. The participants in the Residential Fire Safety Surveyors Program are paid $5.40 an hour and work 20 hours per week.
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JAMES F. CASEY Editor RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA Associate Editor DOROTHY P. FERGUSON Managing Editor BARBARA VOLLWEILER Assistant Editor
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Media Awards Contest

Media Awards Contest

Newspaper, radio and television journalists in the United States and Canada are eligible for cash prizes of up to $500, plaques and certificates in each of six categories in the 1979 International Association of Fire Fighters Media Awards Contest. A seventh category covers IAFF local union publications.
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

I recently came across Ray Henry’s article entitled “What’s Visible and Safe? It’s Fire Engine Red.” In his defense of red he makes a number of incorrect statements. For example, he cites color blindness prevalence as being “five or six out of every thousand people.” The fact is that eight out of 100 men have a color vision problem and two out of 200 cannot distinguish a good red as different from black.
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First-In Engine at Fires Distant From Main Road

What does the first-in engine company do when the fire is down a long driveway—200 feet or more—in a residential area or deep inside an industrial complex? Basically, that first-in engine company officer has two objectives: (1) apply an adequate amount of water to the fire as quickly as possible and (2) immediately arrange for a continuous water supply.
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Fire Equipment Digest

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From the Publishers Desk

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Coming Events

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The Book Shelf

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Manufacturers’ Literature

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Fire Schools and Seminars

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Gas Color Code Dropped

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FE Volume 132 Issue 1

Issues

Free Lease for Station

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Aggressive Attack Limits Loss at Lumberyard Fire

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Canteen Service is But One Of Ways Buffs Can Assist

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Trucks Get Crane to Lift Ladder Pipe

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